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[quote who="Darvin3" reply="12" id="2601978"] For whatever this is it shows a whitish rotating disk below my ships and facilities. This disk appears to have a "peace sign" in the center and white shafts of light eminating from the center of the disk while it is rotating. That's Armistice, the special ability of the Akkan battlecruiser (level 6+). All frigates and cruisers nearby become invulnerable and cannot attack or use special abilities for the duration. This a

[quote who="soase1" reply="5" id="2601698"]OK sounds good. I have all of my ships (including about 20 LRFs) in one fleet and the entire fleet is being disrupted by the enemy light frigates. The enemy AI cycles through his light frigates one after the other using the sabotage reactor ability. Once the ability times out the next enemy frigate uses it's sabotage reactor ability. It sounds like a just need some distance between my LRFs and enemy light frigates.

[quote who="Twilight_Storm" reply="6" id="2601739"]Cobalts don't affect LRF, their ability only works on antimatter units. Get the LRF right up there and take them out quickly if they're really an issue. What you need to keep out of Cobalt range are Percherons, Hoshikoes, and Cieloes. -Twilight Storm[/quote] really? wow! then I do need to split the LRFs off from my main fleet. When I select the fleet (including LRFs) to fire on a

OK sounds good. I have all of my ships (including about 20 LRFs) in one fleet and the entire fleet is being disrupted by the enemy light frigates. The enemy AI cycles through his light frigates one after the other using the sabotage reactor ability. Once the ability times out the next enemy frigate uses it's sabotage reactor ability. It sounds like a just need some distance between my LRFs and enemy light frigates. I will try the "loose" fleet forma

[quote who="Ryat" reply="1" id="2601346"]what, you mean someone figured out how to use a LF properly? well just build some LRFs which counter (and have superior range) LFs[/quote] yes, the AI seems to use this special ability quite well! OK, good idea! I have LRFs in my fleet but they are being effected by the enemy frigates sabotage reactor. I will split off my LRFs from my main fleet and try to keep them out of range of enemy fr

The perpetual noooob player here aksing another dumb question... I am playing a 8 player FFA (AI). Based on my intel the game is now down to 3 forces remaining. I am battling with a TEC faction (TEC vs. TEC) and the enemy fleet is using the sabotage reactor special ability (light frigate - "Game Description: Destabilizes the target with a bolt of energy, causing it to take damage when abilities are used. When such damage is taken, the target cannot use abilities for a b

[quote who="CrazyElectron" reply="96" id="2531605"] BUT! there is no reason why they cant rotate on the spot much faster than they do now, other than the immersion effect like you said... still, they could turn a LITTLE bit faster dont you think?I suppose. Although really, that's what "Advanced Manouvering" is for. I've noticed one of the reasons these turns cause problems is because when you tell a fleet to move behind it, the vessels on either side of the f

[quote who="Pbhead" reply="92" id="2530505"]heres the thing: we see ships doing BOTH... wether they are turning in a big arc turn, or if they are spinning in place... it takes the same ammount of time for the ship to do that 180... I mean... watch an akkan spin to turn to face an enemy... it turns preety dam well. All we want is that kind of turning when the ship needs to GTFO. [/quote] good observation!!

Interesting news. I do not have Diplomacy, but I have Entrenchment and I ended up turning Pirates to OFF because of having to spend too much time in a bidding war to keep the pirates off of me. Has this changed in Diplomacy? Does one still have to "babysit" the pirate bidding to ensure one is safe? Or did Ironclad change the bidding process for the better.

[quote who="ZombiesRus5" reply="21" id="2524888"] Quoting soase1, reply 19I have been playing SINS for about 3 months. I do mostly SP. I am now starting to venture online. What I found amusing is that I went online and started a 2 player vs. 2 computer battle. I mistitled a game sumfink like "4 Player battle Noobs only." Many persons jumped in and wanted to play until they realized it was a human coop game. If i looked up the player stats most of

I have been playing SINS for about 3 months. I do mostly SP. I am now starting to venture online. What I found amusing is that I went online and started a 2 player vs. 2 computer battle. I mistitled a game sumfink like "4 Player battle Noobs only." Many persons jumped in and wanted to play until they realized it was a human coop game. If i looked up the player stats most of them had played over 1,000 online games!! (if I undertood the stats correctly)&nbs

[quote who="B-Tec" reply="10" id="2523414"]this should be pinned, for people who buy the game and want to help the learning curve of A FEW FREAKING WEEKS lol[/quote] hear hear!!

I feel your pain! At the beginning I lost many a ship trying to jump them out combat. Instead of making a beeline for the exit - they move towards the enemy ships in order to do the "arc turn" and then blown away pointblank! haha At the least they should have a tech for "Manuevering Thrusters"

I'm still hoping and researching my militarly labs for the new fangled rocket geometry thingy called "reverse thrusters" for my ships! That way they can hopefully back out of a situation more quickly. When I need to run away from enemy that may help them avoid flying directly at and then through or over the enemy fleet in order to do a 180degree turn!

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[quote quoting="post"] First off: I really like Sins, but I'll soon have send Ironclad my doctor's bill for the treatment of my gastric ulcer.. point 2: when I tell my caps to retreat it usually means the are pretty banged up and really have to get away ASAP. but guess what, as soon the are hit by phasic trap or any other skill that stops their movement, they just forget my order and when they can move again, they start turning towards the enemy to engage him and, of course,

[quote who="davidabc66" reply="2" id="2502377"]I can't actually confrim this, but I would assume a fresh download of Impulse will be of the most recent version. Download Link: http://www.impulsedriven.com/downloads/impulse_setup.exe If your only problem is updating Impulse itself, try that.[/quote] OK, deleting and reinstalling Impulse worked! d'oh!! I never thought of doing this because Impulse has been working fine for everything el

[quote who="davidabc66" reply="2" id="2502377"]I can't actually confrim this, but I would assume a fresh download of Impulse will be of the most recent version. Download Link: http://www.impulsedriven.com/downloads/impulse_setup.exe If your only problem is updating Impulse itself, try that.[/quote] OK, I have not given this method a try. thanks for the info.

[quote who="GoaFan77" reply="1" id="2502367"]If you right click the impulse icon on the taskbar (the one near the clock), there should be a check for updates option (even though it should do this automatically). Otherwise I'm sure there is an option for it in the impulse menu somewhere.[/quote] I already tried updating Impulse throught that method but it never worked. Thanks anyways!

I have finally decided to try out some coop comp stomping online with SINS and entrenchment. After I created my online account and try to log in it says sumfink like, "You cannot login to ICO with old version of SINS, Update to latest version." I start up IMPULSE and it says update available (for IMPULSE) however, after about 50% download their is message, "problem with update try again." This happens over and over. I tried to update SINS and entrenchment but I g

[quote who="Greyfox2" reply="65" id="2462403"]I do keep a watch on attitude. We have kicked out a few because of their attitudes(namely Caius, Sire/King of Kings, and Ascension/Black Sword Command). If someone repeatedly acts like a jackass then eventually it catches up with them. [_]-Greyfox[/quote] That is good to hear! good luck! [e digicons]^_^[/e]

[quote who="Greyfox2" reply="64" id="2462403"]I do keep a watch on attitude. We have kicked out a few because of their attitudes(namely Caius, Sire/King of Kings, and Ascension/Black Sword Command). If someone repeatedly acts like a jackass then eventually it catches up with them. [_]-Greyfox[/quote] That is good to hear! Keep an open mind and you and your group will do fine! good luck!

Wow! you rock! I can barely handle a 4 player free-for-all against the AI on Hard difficulty! Yeahl It does sound like you are ready for some online human-against-human action! good luck against the humans! [e digicons]^_^[/e]

Yes, an simple end video of, for instance, the victorious fleet being recieved with fireworks!

+1 kudos to the SOASE makers!